Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170621
2017-06-21
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- June 19: WMF Holiday
- June 20: Željko vacation
- June 26-July 4: Greg (Vacation)
- July 7th: Mukunda - 7s day RX7 event
- July 10th-14th: Antoine (friend wedding iirc+ Bastille day)
- August 3-9: Željko vacation
- Some weeks in August: Antoine
Team Business
[edit]Rotating positions and absences
[edit]Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
June 5 and June 12
[edit]- Train: Chad
- SoS: Tyler
- Out:
- June 7: Chad
- June 15: Željko local holiday (Corpus Christi)
June 19 and June 26
[edit]- Train: Mukunda
- SoS: Chad
- Out:
- June 22: Željko local holiday (Day of Antifascist Struggle)
- June 26-July 4: Greg (Vacation)
July 3 and July 10
[edit]- Train: Tyler
- no wmf.8 train week of July 4th (tuesday)
- wmf.9
- SoS: Mukunda
- Out:
- July 3+4: Greg (Vacation)
- July 7th: Mukunda
Actions from last meeting
[edit]Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
This week
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- MW 1.29 Release is still blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2400/
- PLEASE HALP!!1
- MW 1.29 Release is still blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2400/
- Updates
Logspam
[edit]- nothing so far, maybe today ;)
Other Team Business
[edit]- Create bot that automatically rebases and rebuilds patches to master - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167181
- [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository? - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-June/088264.html
Q4 goal/project check-in
[edit]Streamlined Services Delivery
[edit]- Build a runnable image from tested and confirmed code that is suitable for promotion.
- define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container
 Done
- generate or consume a docker file for building
- Â Done
- build image, upload and tag it in docker registry
- can upload to a registery, but not *the* registery due to credential issues
- define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container
- blubber is in a runnable state
- working on some good hygeine stuff now that it's post just a POC
- still need to determine where to store credentials (not normal jenkins, maybe a private one?)
Train 2.0
[edit]- Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - T114313 (part 3)
- Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - T104352
- waiting on Joe to do some code review
Release MediaWiki 1.29
[edit]- A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - T153271
- should be done this week (yay)
Non-Quarterly goal work
[edit]Quality
[edit]Quality improvements
[edit]- started weekly cadence of reviewing failed CI tests
- looking for repeat offenders and legit blocking failures
- defining the attributes of code health
Browser tests
[edit]- T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
- T167502 Refactor webdriverio tests for mediawiki core so users and pages are created via the api
- ongoing discussion with Timo on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/352567/ re dependency location
Phabricator
[edit]New task types:
- Release tasks
- Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167893 Deployment blockers
- Release details custom field. Calendar & other markup, navigation to next/previous release are all auto-generated
- Deadline (experimental):
- incident report:Â :(
- I broke Phab for 8 minutes on friday: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170616-PHAB
- SPAM / WP0 pirates abuse prevention
Team Kanban Board Review and Triage
[edit]- All Open
- Assigned
- Unassigned
- No update for 1 week
- No update for 2 weeks
- No update for 3 weeks
- No update for 4 weeks
Kanban stats
[edit]Week to date
[edit]Opened/Added: 20 Closed: 29 Net: -9